Critical Thinking Skills as Predictors of EFL Learners Critical Reading and Foreign Language Reading Anxiety

سال انتشار: 1395
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 19 خرداد 1396

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The present study investigated the predictive power of critical thinking skills on critical reading and foreign language reading anxiety of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 200 intermediate adult male and female Iranian EFL learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing Michigan test of English language proficiency, the California critical thinking skills test, Critical reading scale and foreign language reading anxiety scale. Using KR-21 and Chronbach’s Alpha, the reliability of questionnaires was re-estimated. The results of multiple regression indicated there was a statistically significant predictive of critical thinking skills. Furthermore, the findings of this study show a negative relationship between critical thinking skills and foreign language reading anxiety as measured by FLRAS; this seems logical. The quantitative findings gathered through CTS and FLRA scales suggest that when there is an increase in CTS of the students, FLRA decreases and vice versa. The results and implications of the study are discussed in more detail in the paper

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Saeideh Rezaei

MA, Imam Khomeini international University, Qazvin, Iran

Abbas Ali Zarei

Associate professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran